the 9am endocrine exam was painful– but thankfully, it was short. i came home afterwards to pay some bills and make myself some lunch. ECM was short, and i ended up running off for rose tea and dinner at ten ren with cat. we studied for an hour, and then i ran off to the tennis courts. i went two rounds with the ball machine. hooray! afterwards, i drove straight to the gym for my yoga class. this time, sans hypoglycemia, i managed to finish the class without passing out in child’s pose. another hooray! i finally managed to unwind and release all the stress of the morning… and now i’m home and happy.

next week, emma and i are going to try club boxing. ooooh.

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i think the hardest thing about yoga at 5:45am is that it’s soooooooooo fricken cold outside. it took all the effort i had to crawl out from underneath my blankets, and then when i opened the door to my apartment, this rush of freezing air came in and i wanted to run back inside. i made it to the gym, though, and stumbled my way through the class, nearly falling asleep at the end.

so…now i’m showered and awake, sipping orange juice, and trying to figure out what i want to study today. somebody bring me a muffin.

45 minutes into it, i suddenly felt all lightheaded and my stomach started grumbling… and i had to sit out for a while. not fun.

but… it was a nice ending to an otherwise exhausting day. i had to TA in the morning, 2 hours of omm , an omm meeting at lunchtime that seemed to never end, ECM madness with my non compliant hypothyroid patient, and studying with steven.

my gym has a new crack ‘o dawn yoga class on thursdays now. i’m going to meet emma [a classmate] there if i can get my butt to sleep early enough on wednesday night. yo-ga!

i got up on time this morning, showered, and packed my backpack full of books and a bag full of lunchy and headed out to meet analiza at the library on time. once i was at school, i stepped off of the curb into a huge puddle of water, filling one of my shoes. i limped my way to the library and sat down at a table, took off my shoes, and realized:

i was wearing two different shoes.

one black, one blue. one wet, one dry. one really sad little med student. i sat and tried to study for about 10 minutes, debating whether or not i could stand to spend the day explaining my choice of footwear. uhm…no. i drove home, swapped shoes, and drove back again– cursing my absentmindedness the whole way.

i swear, sometimes i think i really am smart like britney spears.

the weekend ‘o board review is over [for now], and i’m tired. too many diseases, etiologies, diagnosisisisis, treatments. a 24 year old female comes to your office complaining of anxiety, fatigue, polyphagia, vertigo, and an aversion to light…

in my quest to be [slightly] more responsible, i stopped by the grocery store on the way home and picked out brekkie and lunchy for the week [so i can study at lunch instead of going out. so sad.] complete with dried fruits, nuts, and other happy snacks for schoolio. i came home, cooked dinner, packed my snacks into little baggies, and did my dishes. i’m so domesticated.

so… it seems like the whole world is wigging out about the upcoming boards. i’ve got a stack of board review books (thank you, cindi!) a mile high — and all this stress is actually motivating me to open them. i just have to figure out how to balance board studying with studying for my exams while finding time for yoga / tennis / gym so i don’t go nuts.

meanwhile, i’ve caught up on some of my correspondence, cleared through my email box, outlined my endocrine pancreas notes, and found a little time to see the boyfriend. hooray for me.

today: ants galore. omm. cold feet. ecfingm. studying. mimi’s cafe. yoga. mystery bleeding gash on my wrist. stupid people. french fries.